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Looking to the use cases of big data

The Equity Kicker

Mining social media and other music sites to predict the next Lady Gaga – GigaOM highlights Next Big Sound as a key company in this market. Tracking disease epidemics – GigaOM tracks the story of how Twitter tracked a recent outbreak of cholera in Haiti and how that can be of use to aid agencies. Will this idea work?

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

8AM Regulatory Scrutiny of Social Media: The Impact on PR Communicators in 2010 and Beyond. Join our panel of experts in media law, health care communications and digital/social media as we explore what this heightened government scrutiny may mean for PR practitioners, marketers and media strategists.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Ori had been working in advertising for 7 years but had been waiting to find the right start-up opportunity. The name of my business is Simon Says Social Media. I also thought Simon Says was a good tie-in with social media since social media is about conversations. 12 – A Friend Helped.

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